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April 05, 2006

Dental Tourist

The San Francisco Chronicle published a very interesting story about people choosing to travel overseas for dental care. Victoria Colliver writes "A growing number of countries, including India, Thailand and Singapore, are marketing medical and dental services to foreigners, boasting of "first world medicine" at cut-rate prices."

Jim Paggi, a 56-year-old Benicia man, went more than 6,000 miles to Hungary in March to get his teeth fixed for less than a third of the $50,000 or more it would have cost in this country.

Read story here.

www.insideoutmag.com

Posted by insideoutmag at April 5, 2006 10:35 PM

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